@ gmaxwell, you have no proof that BFL is, paying these trolls, as you put it and insinuating so is libelous. Sarcasm is not protected speech like parody is. gmaxwell sense the Bitcointalk forum has given you moderator status that makes you a legal agent for Bitcointalk and makes Bitcointalk liable for your comments. Bitcointalk has no Terms of Service that would insulate it from your comments and thus no protection from libelous statements made by it's moderators. gmaxwell, you have taken away Bitcointalk's safe harbor on this issue. Don't worry I took a screen shot and uploaded to the internet where it's date can be easily verified. Your statement gmaxwell surely shows your inability to remain impartial as a moderator. You don't have a problem with people asking if BFL is engaging in criminal activity but you sure do have a problem when people ask if BTCFPGA.com / BitcoinASIC.com is engaging in criminal activity.
Lets clear the air and get this strait, I am not a BFL employee, an acquaintance of an employee, an acquaintance of an investor in BFL or have any formal relations with BFL or it's investors.
@ ChipGeek, yeah and in the same box the Bitscope shipped in, came a 12 meter anechoic faraday cage but I had to provide my own power supply. And because it was a kit I had to assemble myself, I did not have to meet FCC testing lab regulations to verify and certify digital devices that use frequencies between 9kHz and 3,000,000MHz consuming 6nW or more for FCC compliance. And no I am not accepting new customers, so don't ask.
@ MasterX, that is correct. There was more than one person in the conversation, and it was Tom.
http://www.butterflylabs.org
http://www.enterpoint.co.uk/cairnsmore/cairnsmore1.html
http://fpgamining.com/products/x6500-rev3 / also sold at cablesrus.com
Why letting everyone else off the hook? I think its pretty damn obvious to figure out.
For the record: I will contact the FCC and find out what changes we need to make if any to keep within regulation.
@ Tom, did I say I was letting anyone of the hook? I started with you Tom because your FPGA product is the one with the most obvious design flaws of any competitor you have. I control how this is going to play out not you Tom nor anyone on this forum. One thing you know is that all of your competitors are reading this thread. You can be assured they are evaluating their own position. Tom, one thing I found interesting was how easily you pointed to your peers to take the heat off of yourself, like a child caught stealing candy and pointing to his friends and saying "but they stole candy too."
Tom, when you stated that you'll contact the FCC, to find out what changes we need to make, you tacitly admitted that you failed to comply with FCC regulations. I can now say with the utmost certainty that your product violates FCC regulations and that you have violated 47 USC § 501 and this posting might be used against you in a court of law, these are my beliefs. I am using this posting to memorialize the facts.
Tom, when I suggested to you to stop delivering to US customers, get a lawyer and contact a testing lab you thought I was 'trolling' you, when in actuality I was trying to help you. The more products you deliver to US customers the harsher the penalties levied against you will be. But Tom your so hyper defensive all you could think was that someone was trying to destroy your business, because you couldn't see the truth in front of you. Maybe that's because that is your attitude towards your competitors. In the coming days, weeks and months you will come to realize just how valuable my advice was to you. I wonder if you will have the honor and courage to start a new thread with a public apology to me when I am proven right, and to BFL for insinuating they were behind my statements, but I think your too cowardice to do so. This forum and I will be watching for the measure of your charter.
Tom, if you feel anything that I have said in this posting is libelous I eagerly encourage you to sue me. I dare you to sue me. Hell I demand you sue me. But I think you wont because your afraid of the boomerang law suit.
So now I will stop helping you.
Buy ModMiner Quads from BTCFPGA.com and buy your ASCIs from BitcoinASIC.com ..
Spend as much money as you can afford especially if your a US citizen. Deplete your savings, max out your credit cards, get a loan on your car title, barrow money from as many family members as you can and buy as many items as you can afford from Tom and his companies. Cancel all your orders with other vendors and buy exclusively from BTCFPGA.com and BitcoinASIC.com ..
The more products you buy from BTCFPGA.com and BitcoinASIC.com the greater the warm and fuzzy feeling you'll have. Okay, maybe you'll feel cooler if your currently running a bunch of GPUs. You deserve to treat your self to a BTCFPGA.com and BitcoinASIC.com purchase because you're special, (not in the short school bus way).
Enough with the trolling. I'm tired of seeing thread reports for this thread. Next step is I talk to theymos about banning all the BFL shills.
@ DiabloD3, fuq'n try to get me banned. Show us just how tyrannical you can act because you're an angry bastard moderator. I only refer to you as an angry bastard because that's how you refer to yourself. Banning me would only serve to push me towards other avenues to express my beliefs where there would be no discussion and no chance for Tom to defend himself. And DiabloD3 don't fuq'n lump me in with BFL just because my signature contains a BFL contest signature. BFL and their contestants have no responsibility for my beliefs. DiabloD3 I wonder if you'll have the fuq'n courage to ban the shills with BTCFPGA.com and BitcoinASIC.com in their signatures, would you? Let us see you state publicly that you will treat Tom's contestants the same way. I'm willing to bet DiabloD3 that your too biased in favor of Tom's and his contestant to treat them the same way and actually ban them. DiabloD3 sense your so willing to lump in those that have nothing to do with my beliefs then hear this loud and clear. It would be a shame if Tom's international customers don't get their orders because Tom's products do not meet the regulations of the order's destination country and are turned back by custom authorities. Canada, Mexico, EU, Australia, New Zealand, China and other counties all have similar regulations as the FCC. In at least one of those counties the importer will get fined if customs rejects an unauthorized electronic device.
How do you like them fuq'n apples. There is a quote from a movie that goes something like, "If they put one of yours in to the hospital then put one of theirs in to the morgue." I still have many arrows in my quiver, I have yet to use the nuclear option(s). Push me, please.
Note, fuq is pronounced with a long sounding U, similar to fuschia.
@ theymos, gmaxwell, DiabloD3, and other moderators, the specter of at least three court cases have been raised in this posting in addition to an admission of guilt to a criminal offence. Editing or removing this post might be considered tampering with or destruction of evidence. You might consider consulting with a lawyer before editing or removing this post to avoid possible criminal sanctions. theymos, you might want to implement a ToS that is easily accessible to the public.
@ Tom, scrubbing your postings might incur criminal sanctions, you know there are screen shots.
Tom, you know whats nice about being older and educated? College friends that are now lawyers to help you avoid pitfalls. The entirety of my words in this posting are solely my beliefs.
The twilight of the idols is now. Tom, you have been rope-a-doped for treating me like a, to use your words, 'troll', when all I was doing was trying to help you.